Targeted Advertising Cookie Opt-Out (TACO)

Sets permanent opt-out cookies to stop targeted advertising by 37 different advertising networks
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Targeted Advertising Cookie Opt-Out (TACO) Description

Sets permanent opt-out cookies to stop targeted advertising by 37 different advertising networks Targeted Advertising Cookie Opt-Out (TACO) is a Firefox extension that sets permanent, generic, non personally identifiable opt-out cookies in the user's browser, which will prevent 37 different online advertising networks from collecting information on that user.Unlike other earlier opt-out solutions, this tool will make the cookies completely persistent. That is, clearing the browser's cookies will delete all other installed cookies, except these.Users wishing to delete these 40+ cookies (some advertising networks require multiple cookies, for different domain names) must first remove the add-on, before then deleting all installed cookies from the preferences window.This tool is based on the Advertising Cookie Opt Out Plugin by Valentin Gheorghita, a Google Engineer, which the company released under the Apache 2 open source license. This author's modifications have been released under the same Apache 2 license.For a list of the 37 advertising networks that this tool applies to, please visit the developer's site.This add-on is not affiliated with or approved by the Network Advertising Initiative, Google or anyone other than the author. Requirements: · Mozilla Firefox What's New in This Release: · Rewritten from scratch by Daniel Witte @ Mozilla. This new version now happily co-exists with the "block third party cookies" setting. This version also includes the opt-out cookies for an additional 6 advertising networks.


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